A seafaring story with a twist--the incredible voyage of a shipload of "disorderly girls" and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold them. This riveting work of rediscovered history tells for the first time the plight of the female convicts aboard the Lady Julian, which set sail from England in 1789 and arrived in Australia's Botany Bay a year later. The women, most of them petty criminals, were destined for New South Wales to provide its hordes of lonely ... View more info

A seafaring story with a twist--the incredible voyage of a shipload of "disorderly girls" and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold them. This riveting work of rediscovered history tells for the first time the plight of the female convicts aboard the Lady Julian, which set sail from England in 1789 and arrived in Australia's Botany Bay a year later. The women, most of them petty criminals, were destined for New South Wales to provide its hordes of lonely ... View more info

Great chapter headings! Examples are 1498--1605 Spice and Plunder; 1630-1768 Buccaneers, Privateers and Land Sharks; 1788-1791 Enter the Convict; 1804-1810 Seals and Sandalwood; 1811-817 Pearls and Pirates; 1847-1850 Guano and Gold; and with appendices of names, dates, governors and indexes of ships, places, persons and subjects. These in Volume I; Vol II continues. View more info

Lengthy research from the marvellous early sea trade to the first news of gold. This is the first of two titles covering the subject; the other, 'Citizens' covers the years from 1888 to the present. Fascinating! View more info

First 130 pages wavy from damp storage; unaffects text or illustrations. Light page edge foxing. Binding tight, pages unmarked. Illustrated endpapers. Treats with the ships and captains, crews, and emigrants both in the days of the Gold Rush and afterwards. View more info